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Advancing Functional Interoperability through Standards for Health Information Management (HIM) Practices

Description 
American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) collaborates with the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) to develop a collaborative informatics-based approach for translating health information management (HIM) practices into health information technology (HIT) standards. AHIMA Standards Task Force and IHE are focusing on two major efforts:
1.	Standardize HIM business practices in collaboration with HIM professionals and HIT vendors
2.	Guide the development and adoption of standards-based interoperable HIT solutions.
Start Date 
09/15/2014
Projected End Date 
12/31/2020
Project Tags 
  • C-CDA
  • DAF
  • EHR
  • FHIR
  • HIE
  • HL7
  • IHE
  • interoperability
  • MDHT
  • Testing
  • Functional Interoperability
  • Information Governance
  • HIM
  • ISO/TC215
Project Point of Contact: harry.rhodesremove@removeahima.org
Project Results 
None